Editing Sid Vicious (section)

== Post-Sex Pistols ==
On 19 January, Vicious boarded a flight from San Francisco to New York. By the time the plane landed at [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|JFK Airport]], he had slipped into a [[diazepam]]-, methadone- and alcohol-induced coma and was rushed to a hospital in [[Queens]] where, as he told the photographer [[Roberta Bayley]], the doctor told him that if he did not quit drinking, he would be dead in six months.<ref name="auto7"/>

When he was released, he re-united with Spungen. In April, the two travelled to Paris to film the Sex Pistols [[mockumentary]] ''[[The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle]]'', where they spent most of their time in their hotel room, doing drugs. Director [[Julien Temple]] was able to get Vicious to attend production long enough to record three [[song cover]]s: "[[C'mon Everybody#Legacy|C'mon Everybody]]", "[[Somethin' Else (song)#Renditions|Something Else]]" and "[[My Way#Sid Vicious|My Way]]".<ref>{{cite web |title=Sex Pistols – The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/4313873-Sex-Pistols-The-Great-Rock-N-Roll-Swindle |date=27 November 1992 |publisher=Discogs |access-date=3 February 2022}}</ref> When Vicious returned to his hotel, he found that Spungen had retaliated for being left alone by superficially cutting her wrists.<ref name="auto1"/>

The couple then travelled to New London where, by August, they needed to return to the US but had no money. Sid bumped into Glen Matlock, who by this point had founded the band [[Rich Kids]], and suggested that they play a gig together. For this concert, Vicious and Matlock recruited Rich Kids guitarist and singer [[Steve New]], and the Damned's drummer [[Rat Scabies]]. They called themselves [[Vicious White Kids]] and performed once—at the [[Electric Ballroom]] in [[Camden Town]] on 15 August 1978. Vicious did not play bass in this band; he was the lead singer. Spungen joined on backing vocals but Matlock made sure that her microphone was not plugged in for the concert.

Vicious and Spungen then returned to New York, where they settled into Room 100 of the [[Hotel Chelsea]] (after causing a fire in their first room) as Mr. and Mrs. John Ritchie.<ref name="auto5">{{cite web |last1=Bangs |first1=Lester |title=A Sid Vicious Story...Oct 1978 |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/1978/10/23/a-sid-vicious-story/ |work=The Village Voice |date=23 October 1978 |access-date=4 February 2022}}</ref> Spungen acted as his manager, putting together the band of [[Steve Dior]], [[Jerry Nolan]] and [[Arthur Kane]] and booking him into the New York club [[Max's Kansas City]]. Spungen sang with him,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roberts |first1=Ebet |title=Mick Jones, Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious, Max's Kansas City, NYC, 1978 |url=https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/photographs/kTKZP3/Mick-Jones-Nancy-Spungen-and-Sid-Vicious-Maxs-Kansas-City-NYC-1978 |website=morrisonhotelgallery.com |publisher=Morrison Hotel |access-date=3 February 2022}}</ref> and they were sometimes joined by [[Mick Jones (The Clash)|Mick Jones]] and [[Johnny Thunders]]. He drew large crowds, though some performances were "hellish", with the audience booing his attempted imitation of Rotten, and Vicious insulting the audience. Examples of this can be heard in the in-between tracks on his live album ''Sid Sings'';<ref name="Sid Vicious – Sid Sings">{{cite web |title=Sid Vicious – Sid Sings |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/137699-Sid-Vicious-Sid-Sings |date=27 November 1979 |publisher=Discogs |access-date=2 February 2022}}</ref> these performances were also released in 2002 (and again in 2011), as ''Live at Max's Kansas City, NY 1978''.<ref name="auto8">{{cite web |title=Sid Vicious – Live At Max's Kansas City, NY 1978 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/3831080-Sid-Vicious-Live-At-Maxs-Kansas-City-NY-1978 |publisher=Discogs |access-date=2 February 2022}}</ref> In the documentary ''[[Who Killed Nancy?]]'', Dior said that Vicious "got good money for those shows" but Spungen often had to call her parents for money. In one of these conversations, Spungen said that she was having problems with her kidneys, and asked her mother to look into getting her, and Vicious, into a detox programme.<ref name="auto3"/><ref>{{cite web|title=Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols Bring The Filth and the Fury|publisher=Max's Kansas City|url=http://www.maxskansascity.com/punk|access-date=17 September 2008|archive-date=16 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716043634/http://www.maxskansascity.com/punk/|url-status=dead}}</ref>